Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to an office, or the bestowing of an honor or award.
In the context of elections for public office, a candidate who has been selected by a political party is normally said to be the nominee of that party. The party's selection (that is, the nomination) is typically accomplished either based on one or more primary elections or by means of a political partyconvention or caucus, according to the rules of the party and any applicable election laws.
Normally, the nominee of a recognized political party is entitled to appear on the general election ballot. Candidates who are unaffiliated with any political party are typically required to submit a nominating petition in order to gain ballot access.
In philosophy, nominalism is the theory that abstract terms, general terms, or universals do not represent objectivereal existents, but are merely names, words, or vocal utterances (flatus vocis).
Nominalism, on the contrary, models the concept on the external object, which it holds to be individual and particular.
Nominalism consequently denies the existence of abstract and universal concepts, and refuses to admit that the intellect has the power of engendering them.
Nominalism, which is irreconcilable with a spiritualistic philosophy and for that very reason with scholasticism as well, presupposes the ideological theory that the abstract concept does not differ essentially from sensation, of which it is only a transformation.
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